Monday, March 9, 2015

“So in a sense, [Hillary] Clinton made all the Sunday shows, albeit in a way no candidate wants to...” — Wa Po Commentator.

"First, Clinton continues to do Republicans’ work for them, painting a portrait of deception and dishonesty. Second, it makes the “inevitability” theme sound more like a complaint [that] Democrats are stuck with her"

Trey Gowdy on “Face the Nation”: “Huge Gaps...” "...months long..." on Benghazi E-mails — So Much for the “Release” of 55,000 E-mail “Documents” until recently secretly held by Hillary Clinton

On “Meet the Press,” Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.): “...[T]he silence is going to hurt her”; and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): "Did she communicate on behalf of The Clinton Foundation as Secretary of State? Did she call the terrorist attack in Benghazi a terrorist attack in real time? I want to know. And the one thing I’ll never agree to is let the State Department tell us what e-mails we should receive, or let her and her team tell us. Some independent group should do that."

According to Poltico’s report on Gowdy’s Sunday morning TV interview on the CBS “Face the Nation” program, “... [i]n the batch of emails handed over to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Gowdy said there’s no record of any communication on the day that Clinton was famously photographed wearing sunglasses and typing on her Blackberry. *** ‘We have no emails from that trip,’ he said. ‘It strains credibility to believe that if you’re on your way to…to discuss Libyan policy that there’s not a single document that’s been turned over to Congress.’...”
(See “Trey Gowdy sees months-long gaps in Clinton emails” by Adam Sneed,
3/8/15, Politico [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/trey-gowdy-sees-months-long-gaps-in-clinton-emails-115871.html]). Politco also reported that Gowdy said this: “... Clinton is welcome to release all of the emails she archived while serving as Secretary of State, but she doesn’t get to decide what’s in the public record and what isn’t....”

Now, with Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy's well-stated allegations of missing Benghazi E-mails, Hillary Clinton is wide open to comparisons with Richard Nixon and Watergate. How will Hillay's "...months long gap..." stack up against Nixon's "...eighteen minute gap..." ? All of that will be more than merely "fair comment "; it will ultimately be a cosmic moral symmetry and "fair treatment" for her and her supporters.

“When ‘Saturday Night Live’ skewered Al Gore’s performance in the 2000 debates and Tina Fey seemed to become more like Sarah Palin than Palin herself, you knew there was an understanding about these figures so familiar that people would, well, get the joke. The comedy does not work unless the assumption is widely held, even if it is strenuously denied by the victim’s supporters. So, too, it is becoming with Hillary Clinton. *** The fake laugh, the overly deliberated and failed attempt to “relate,” and the voracious quest for power....” (See “Hillary Clinton’s scandals define her” by Jennifer Rubin, 3/9/15, The Washington Post/ On the Right [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2015/03/09/hillary-clintons-scandals-define-her/]).

Rubin went on to tell us that “... Sadly for Clinton, you got pretty much the same analysis [as ‘SNL’] from pundits. And the critics were all over the Sunday talk shows. Chris Wallace stripped the bark off Lanny Davis. Establishment pundits extraordinaire Mark Halperin and John Heilemann slammed Clinton [on the ABC Stephanopoulos show, ‘This Week’] .... On ‘Meet the Press,’ taking Clinton to task were both Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ... and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) And finally, on ‘Face the Nation’... Trey Gowdy... and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) [raising National Security concerns and susceptibility of Hillary’s E-mails to cyber attacks] we’ll find out in the coming weeks just what the legal situation is with regard to that.’... So in a sense, Clinton made all the Sunday shows, albeit in a way no candidate wants to. The furor has some immediate consequences. First, Clinton continues to do Republicans’ work for them, painting a portrait of deception and dishonesty. Second, it makes the “inevitability” theme sound more like a complaint [that]Democrats are stuck with her....”

JAMES CARVILLE BLASTS “COCKAMAMIE” NY TIMES FOR PUSHING A LINE THAT WAS “STRAIGHT FROM [GOP] TALKING POINTS” — AND HE HAD SNARKY REMARKS ABOUT HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS THAT QUESTIONED HILLARY, AS WELL

“ Democratic strategist James Carville went to bat for Hillary Clinton on Monday, downplaying the seriousness of Clinton’s private e-mail use as secretary of state and disparaging the New York Times for breaking the story, which he said was taken from Republican talking points. *** “All of this is just the same cockamamie stuff that we go through,” the longtime Clinton ally said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. “The Times gets something from some right-wing talking points. They plant the story. They’ve got to walk the story back. ... This is never going to end. We've lived with this for 20 years. We'll live with it for the rest of the campaign. It's all about nothing.” (See “James Carville Blasts 'Cockamamie' Clinton E-mail Story” by Ali Elkin [Editor Elizabeth Titus] 3/9/15, Bloomberg News/ Clinton E-mails [http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-09/james-carville-blasts-cockamamie-clinton-e-mail-story]).

OBAMA AND HILLARY DID E-MAIL ON HILLARY'S PRIVATE E-MAIL ACCOUNT AFTER ALL

Now, it turns out that President Barack Obama did know that Hillary Clinton used a non-government E-mail address while she was Secretary of State. However, according to Press Secretary Josh Earnest, the President didn’t know the extend of Clinton’s her private email system. Earlier today, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, “I would not describe the numbers of emails as large." Referring to the President, Earnest said, "He was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up....” The President’s Press Secretary dodged follow-up questions about the president’s knowledge of Clinton’s email practices, and how the administration should respond. “I’m not going to get into a lot of detail, said Earnest (See “White House Reset: Obama Knew Of Hillary’s Private Email” by Neil Munro, 3/9/15, Daily Callerhttp://dailycaller.com/2015/03/09/white-house-reset-obama-knew-of-hillarys-private-email/]).

All of the above is clearly a shift from Saturday, March 7, when the President told CBS that he learned about the Secretary of State’s private email system at “the same time everybody else learned it through news reports.”

Earnest did say that any emails between the two would have been preserved according to the Presidential Records Act.( See “White House says Obama traded email with Clinton's private account, but didn't know details” article by Associated Press, 3/9/15, Minneapolis Star Tribune/ AP [http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/295639901.html]).

Gee Gale I failed to see the part of your post where you acknowledge that every GOP contender for the presidency in 2016 also used private emails accounts for official business.

btw, Re: taught in school:

y/k/w from y/k/w who once taught y/k/w and lived on the top floor of y/k/w in retirement died the other day. Did you know that the only time y/k/w and the other y/k/w's wear their hoods is right before the casket is closed?

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